Michael Lee of the AJC writes that Hawks general manager Pete Babcock says he is "100 percent" responsible for the team's failures this season. But unless president Stan Kasten decides to fire him, Babcock says, he wants to try once again to rebuild a team that has won 35 percent of its games since 1999.

Going into this season, Babcock assembled what he thought would be the Hawks' first playoff team in four years. Instead, the team is 17-29 and appears headed again for a lottery pick.

"We stuck with our plan, and I was wrong -- across the board," Babcock said.